Vegans looking for new recipes have more and more choices these days. Here are few recent vegan cookbooks:
□ The Vegan Cook's Bible (Robert Rose, $24.95) by Pat Crocker is a comprehensive book that has 250 recipes that aim to show how varied and modern vegan cooking can be. Recipes include: sweet potato wild rice cakes accompanied by braised greens with cherries and pine nuts, gingered carrot and turnip puree, green bean, pecan and pomegranate salad, pan-seared artichokes with pomegranate molasses, mushroom-stuffed fennel and red peppers and rice with red curry cauliflower. Also interesting are the 150 profiles of fruits, vegetables, legumes, grains, nuts, soy foods, sea vegetables, herbs and flavorings. The profiles include information not only on uses and storage, but also on their healing properties.
□ The Urban Vegan: 250 Simple, Sumptuous Recipes from Street Cart Favorites to Haute Cuisine (Globe Pequot, $16.95) is by Dynise Balcavage, who details life as a city vegan on her blog, UrbanVegan.net. Selections range from Marsala mushroom crepes and sweet-potato gnocchi with basil cream sauce (made with soy milk) to minty mojitos and sherry-infused pate (made with cremini mushrooms and pecans, rather than goose liver). As she puts it, newer recipes have transformed vegan cooking from "oat cuisine" to "haute cuisine."
□ Vegan Brunch: Homestyle Recipes Worth Waking Up For -- From Asparagus Omelets to Pumpkin Pancakes (DaCapo Press, $19.95) is a new cookbook by Isa Chandra Moskowitz, the author of the best-selling Veganomicon and the creator of the Post Punk Kitchen Web site. Her offerings include fennel breakfast risotto, Swiss chard frittata, stuffed artichokes with ginger and chervil and pain au chocolat.
□ Quick and Easy Vegan Comfort Food (The Experiment, $17.95) is full of down-home recipes by Alicia C. Simpson, a contributing writer for the Vegans of Color blog. It includes Fried Chik'n Seitan (seitan is made with wheat gluten and soy flour), Tuno Casserole (garbanzo beans stand in for tuna) and dozens of others.
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